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Eurytides

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Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Eurytides:

Subgenus Bellerographium Möhn, 2002

  • Eurytides bellerophon (Dahlman, 1823)

Subgenus Eurytides

  • Eurytides salvini (Bates, 1864) – Salvin's kite swallowtail
  • Eurytides columbus (Kollar, 1850)
  • Eurytides orabilis (Butler, 1872) – thick-edged kite swallowtail
  • Eurytides serville (Godart, 1824) – Serville swordtail
  • Eurytides callias (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906) – Callias kite swallowtail
  • Eurytides dolicaon (Cramer, [1776]) – dolicaon kite swallowtail
  • Eurytides iphitas Hübner, [1821] – yellow kite swallowtail

Subgenus Neographium Möhn, 2002:

  • Eurytides thyastes Drury, 1782) - Brazil
  • Eurytides calliste (H. Bates, 1864), Yellow kite-swallowtail - Guatemala
  • Eurytides dioxippus (Hewitson, [1856]), thick-bordered kite-swallowtail - Colombia
  • Eurytides leucaspis (Godart, 1819) - Peru?
  • Eurytides epidaus (E. Doubleday, 1846), Mexican kite-swallowtail - Mexico (Yucatan); Honduras
  • Eurytides agesilaus (Guérin-Méneville & Percheron, 1835) - Mexico to Bolivia & Paraguay
  • Eurytides × oberthueri Rothschild & Jordan, 1906 - Mexico, Honduras Theoretically a natural hydrid between E. agesilaus and E. philolaus.
  • Eurytides philolaus (Boisduval, 1836) – dark kite swallowtail - Texas, USA & northern Mexico to Colombia & Venezuela
  • Eurytides zonaria (A. Butler, 1869), Hispaniolan kite-swallowtail - Hispaniola
  • Eurytides anaxilaus (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1865), small kite-swallowtail - Panama, northern Colombia, N Venezuela
  • Eurytides celadon (Lucas, 1852), Cuban kite-swallowtail - Cuba & Isla de Juventud
  • Eurytides marcellinus (E. Doubleday, [1845]), Jamaican kite-swallowtail - Jamaica
  • Eurytides asius (Fabricius, 1781) - South America

Subgenus Boreographium Grishin, 2021

  • Eurytides marcellus (Cramer, 1777), Zebra swallowtail - eastern USA & Canada

Some species have been moved to genus Mimoides.

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